Posted on 04/17/2021 6:02:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Take a bow, there!!! Lovely.
save dat oil!@
Greetings from southern New Hampshire. Sorry I missed your posting, but yesterday morning, our beloved cat, “Blue”, crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. He was 16 and had liver failure. This is the second cat in six months that has died on my lap! We are now down to four cats and we have three holes in our home and our hearts.
Household Six has quite a “garden” started in our basement. I was going to start raking and leveling raised beds, but yesterday, we had about 3” of heavy, wet snow. It is all gone, now.
I have the first of three horizontal hive boxes done. Two to go. They are insulated with sheep wool. I drove down to Mass to pick up three bags full, and all I heard was “Baa Baa”.
Life goes on.
So is it true?
The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain? ;)
Sorry to read that. Keep the fond memories with you each day.
Sorry to hear about Blue. I’ve had more cats and dogs than I can remember and it’s never easy. The hardest was, and still is, my BELOVED Basset Hound, Rufus. I loved that dog like no other. ((Hugs))
You are doing the bees a great favor! I was listening to a story about Beekeepers in Detroit of all places; they are making great strides with establishing rooftop hives and such and teaching inner-city people about Nature...which is pretty much absent from their lives. :(
We got several inches of snow yesterday.
There’s still too much on the ground, but fortunately, it’s going to be warming up starting today so it shouldn’t last long.
Then the potatoes are going in.
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
In a normal year we average about 320 days of sunshine and temps in the 70's. Most of our water comes from reservoirs that catch snow melt from the mountains. Because the mountains create a microclimate here it's rare to see temperatures above 90 and even rarer to see it get to freezing. It's never done that since we moved here in 2016. So I guess it is true.
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Here in Florida my red oleander is putting on quite a show of red blossoms.
Down the street a neighbor has a pumpkin that has turned orange. When I tried squash a few years back, the vines did well at first but later were riddled with boring holes.
The hydrangea I bought from Wal-Mart three weeks ago still has its blooms.
My amaryllis are blooming, but not all at the same time. Their blooms only last a few days each.
My Maui ixora are starting to bloom. They like moderate shade.
My neighbor’s citrus trees are not doing well. The Florida sun south of Sarasota where I am is too hot. As development moves inland, the cloud cover decreases, making my area more sunny.
rose grafting:
https://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/topic-files/flower/propagation.pdf
I’ve never had any luck with grafting or budding in years past, but I’ll keep trying.
http://farei.mu/farei/wp-content/uploads/farei_doc_repository/Booklet_Rose.pdf
My browser objected to the file from Mauritius, but it seems fine.
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